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Valvata snails no longer need federal protection PDF Print E-mail
Written by LAURA LUNDQUIST, Twin Falls Times-News   
Thursday, 26 August 2010

One of Idaho’s snails will be removed from the endangered species list next month. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it would remove the Utah valvata snail’s endangered status after proposing delisting a year ago. The official date of delisting will be Sept. 24.

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Wyoming Supreme Court upholds North Platte River access PDF Print E-mail
Written by BEN NEARY, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Outdoors lovers can continue to hunt and fish on a blue-ribbon stretch of the North Platte River west of Casper, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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Ensign visits Elko--Senator urges El Paso to release agreement PDF Print E-mail
Written by ADELLA HARDING, Elko Daily Free Press   
Thursday, 26 August 2010
U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said Tuesday his office is talking with El Paso Corp. in hopes of convincing the company to make public its pact with two environmental organizations over Ruby Pipeline.

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ConocoPhillips appeals Idaho judge's big rig ruling PDF Print E-mail
Written by KIM BRIGGEMAN, Missoulian   
Thursday, 26 August 2010

He's not counting his chickens yet. "This is probably the first skirmish. These folks aren't going to go away," Linwood Laughy said Wednesday.

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Wyoming Gov Freudenthal updates sage grouse conservation plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Gov. Dave Freudenthal on Wednesday issued an executive order revising Wyoming's sage grouse "core population area" policy, first implemented by executive order in 2008 to help avoid a listing of the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act.

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'Ecosystem services' at risk from suburban development -- USFS report PDF Print E-mail
Written by Meg Ambrose   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Private forests are experiencing increases in housing density in every region of the United States, but the loss of forests to development is particularly acute in the Southeast and New England, according to new findings from the Forest Service. Photo courtesy of USFS/Jeff Kline.
Large swaths of private forest, which account for most of the forested acreage in the United States, could be replaced by housing in the coming decades, potentially compromising water quality, carbon sequestration and other "ecosystem services" that those forests provide, according to a new report from the Forest Service.
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Boulder to use car colors to discourage driving PDF Print E-mail
Written by LAURA SNIDER, Daily Camera   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Photo from Let Ideas CompeteGot a blue car? The city of Boulder wants you to consider commuting sans car on Mondays.

Red car? Take a break from driving on Wednesdays. White? Thursday is your designated day of the week to leave your vehicle at home.


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Hauling Gold on the Chief Joe Montana Cleanup Plan Riles Wyoming Officials PDF Print E-mail
Written by WyoFile.com   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Beginning next summer the state of Montana plans to haul thousands of tons of contaminated mine tailings from an abandoned Cooke City, Montana, gold mine over Wyoming’s Chief Joseph Scenic Highway, a fragile, 47-mile, two-lane mountain route to Yellowstone and  one of the state’s most popular tourist byways.

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Idaho judge revokes big rig permits, wants more study PDF Print E-mail
Written by Missolian   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.

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Rafting dispute panel named PDF Print E-mail
Written by Pueblo Chieftain   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Gov. Bill Ritter announced his appointments Monday to the 17-member River Access Dispute Resolution Task Force.

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Feds appeal grizzly bear relisting PDF Print E-mail
Written by Billings Gazette   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed an appeal earlier this month to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the relisting of the estimated 600 grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem.

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Judge to decide today fate of oversized loads PDF Print E-mail
Written by Spokane Spokesman Review   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
A state judge will decide today if ConocoPhillips can ship four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment along a highway that traces a winding, federally protected river corridor in Idaho.

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Company regrets Ruby Pipeline conservation deal PDF Print E-mail
Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
An El Paso Corp. spokesman expressed regret that the company struck a deal setting aside some $22 million in conservation trusts to alleviate environmental opposition to a Wyoming-to-Oregon natural gas pipeline.

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Grand Canyon future at 'great risk,' report says PDF Print E-mail
Written by SHAUN McKINNON, Arizona Republic   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Haze blurs the skies over the Grand Canyon, tour planes break the backcountry silence, uranium mines are making a comeback near the Canyon's rim and the Colorado River has lost its muddy mojo.

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Research IDs lands along Yellowstone River that may be public PDF Print E-mail
Written by BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette   
Monday, 23 August 2010
Research done by a coalition of local groups has identified 10 tracts of land along and in the Yellowstone River between Laurel and Billings that may be public.

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As 'plant productivity' dips, a search for answers PDF Print E-mail
Written by PETE SPITTS, Christian Science Monitor   
Monday, 23 August 2010
Earth's plants – natural scrubbers removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – reduced their carbon uptake by some 606 million tons during the past 10 years, according to a new study.

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Lewistown meeting shows monument opposition mounting PDF Print E-mail
Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune   
Monday, 23 August 2010
Mistrust of the purported plans by the Interior Department to create a grasslands national monument — possibly with bison — on Montana's open plains was expressed by speaker after speaker at a meeting here Friday.

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Groups form coalition on wolf issue PDF Print E-mail
Written by EVE BYRON, Helena Independent Record   
Monday, 23 August 2010

Representatives of livestock producers, outfitters, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts promised Friday to present a united front with the state of Montana as it moves forward as quickly as possible, on multiple pathways, to try to regain tools needed to control growing gray wolf populations.

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Court rules in favor of EPA in US Magnesium case PDF Print E-mail
Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune   
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Federal regulators may well have the authority after all to decide how a Utah magnesium plant manages its hazardous waste, under a Denver appeals court’s ruling released Tuesday.

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Oregon timber plans in doubt after appeals court says logging road runoff is pollution PDF Print E-mail
Written by ERIC MORTENSON, Oregonian   
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
tillamook_state_forest.jpgRuling on a case involving the Tillamook State Forest, a federal appeals court said Tuesday that dirt, rock and sand washing off of logging roads is a form of pollution that requires a permit under the Clean Water Act.  Read more...
 
Read the entire 9th Circuit opinion here.
 
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